Sloan Wins Heat in New Irish Record Jordan Sloan continued his good form at the World Short Course Swimming Championships today, winning his 200m Freestyle heat in a new Irish Senior Record. Swimming in heat 8 of 11, Sloan clocked 1:45.16 knocking over a second off Ryan Harrison’s 2009 record of 1:46.34. The Bangor swimmer placed 17th overall, moving up over 20 places on his initial ranking. Only the top 8 progress to finals in the 200m events. Jordan is […]

Irish swimmers continued their record breaking form on the final night of the Swim Ireland National Short Course Championships in Lisburn tonight, bringing the total number of records broken across the three day meet to thirteen. Announced earlier today as the Swim Ireland 2016 Junior Performance Athlete of the Year, Mona McSharry was undoubtedly the star of the weekend as she brought her junior record and gold medal tally to five and seven. The 16 year old was pushed […]

Diver Oliver Dingley and swimmer Ellen Keane have today been announced as the Swim Ireland Performance Athletes of the Year following their outstanding achievements at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Dingley became Ireland’s first Diver in 68 years to qualify for an Olympic Games last February. At the Games, the 23 year old cruised through the preliminary round of the 3M Springboard to advance to the semi-final in 13th place. Another exceptional performance in the semi-final, where he […]

Swim Ireland’s Irish Short Course National Championships continued in Lisburn today with six more records tumbling as Irish swimmers impressed once more with fantastic performances in the pool. Marlins Swimming Club’s Mona McSharry continued her march on claiming Irish records adding three more to the 100m Breaststroke record she broke yesterday. The 16 year old started the night by winning the 50m Freestyle in 25.90 seconds, breaking Niamh Kilgallen’s record of 26.25 from last year’s event. Kilgallen was 3rd […]

The success of Team Ireland at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games was celebrated by one and all at a Gala Awards ceremony in The Ballsbridge Hotel last night. There was a rousing reception as double Paralympian swimmer James Scully was named the Outstanding Team Member (Athlete) of the Games. Scully, a member of NAC Swimming Club, made two finals in Rio and swam a number of personal bests. His contribution to Team Ireland in and out of the pool was […]

The 2016 Irish SC Championships kicked off with two Irish records during the first heats session. Brendan Hyland from Tallaght (and the NAC Performance Centre) lowered Barry Murphy’s 2011 100m Butterfly record to a 53.04 and Bangor’s Jack McMillan swimming a time of 3.52.86 to break the Junior Boys 400m Freestyle record. The first gold medal of the weekend went to local girl Rachel Bethel (Lisburn City) who cruised to victory in the 800m Freestyle. 16 year old Rachel touched […]

All eyes will be on Lagan Valley Leisureplex, Lisburn this weekend for the Irish National Short Course Swimming Championships with Ireland’s top swimmers competing for national titles in the 25m format competition. Events will take place from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th December with 63 teams and over 400 swimmers in action in the first National Championships of the 2016/17 swimming season. Junior Ellen Walshe, from Templeogue SC, has been showing impressive form already this season breaking both the Irish Junior […]

Club Youth Awards – A reminder to register your club for CYA before 31st December 2016. Click here to complete the form. Lisburn CPD’s – Lisburn CPD’s taking place over Irish Short Course Nationals 2nd 3rd and 4th December. Book online through the Swim Ireland shop New safeguarding refresher web app launched – Sport Ireland have launched ‘Safeguarding 1 Refresher’, a web based education resource aimed at providing further training to those who have previously attended a Safeguarding workshop or equivalent. The web resource, […]

Swim Ireland are delighted to announce the appointment of Jon Rudd as our new National Performance Director (NPD). Jon comes to Ireland with fantastic experience in international swimming and will lead Swim Ireland’s High Performance Programme in the next Olympic cycle through to Tokyo 2020. Rudd, currently based in Plymouth, England, is the coach of 2012 Olympic Gold medallist and World Record holder Ruta Meilutyte and 2016 Olympic Finalist Ben Proud. He has been Head Coach of Plymouth Leander Swimming […]

The 2016 Irish Open Diving Championships took place from 11th to 13th November in The National Aquatic Centre, Dublin with 132 divers taking part in this years event. A host of clubs from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Great Britain and Dubai were represented as divers competed for medals over the three days Spectators were treated to some world class diving over the weekend as this years open and also saw Rio 2016 Olympic diver Oliver Dingley compete for the first time […]